The writer in question, Leslie S. Klinger, was hoping to publish a new work based on characters that he felt were established in short stories that were now in the public domain. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s estate disagreed.

Writing a story about a favorite character is one thing, but as soon as money changes hands on a copyrighted work, the original creator is going to have something to say about it.

We discussed a parallel example of cover songs on YouTube, where Universal Music Publishing Group has set up a deal with video distributors on ways to automatically share advertising revenue with both creators and cover song artists.

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